Gunnel for Lunch
This Glaucous Gull found a delicous Gunnel for lunch down at a beach in Parksville. What is a Gunnel? Great question!
A Gunnel is a elongated fish native to the coasts of the northern Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic Oceans, where they inhabit intertidal and subtidal waters and eat crustaceans and mollusks.
Photography Courtesy of Ralph Hocken.
Are you ready to turn green? Starting in September two city garbage routes, E and F will receive their green kitchen composting bins and information packages. To find out which route you are just have a look at the top left hand corner of your garbage collection schedule.
Scheduled collection on the 10 routes involved starts after Thanksgiving. Residences on the 20 remaining City-serviced Routes, ‘A’ through ‘D’, will start participating in 2011.
The Green Bin Program will be picked up every week, while the recycling and garbage collection will alternate schedules. Here’s all the things you can put in your green bins: (please do not put your pet’s doggie doo bags in there!)
•Food leftovers, plate scrapings
•Meat, fish, poultry and bones
•Fruit and vegetable scraps
•Dairy products, butter, mayonnaise
•Egg shells
•Bread, cereal, grains
•Pasta, rice, pizza
•Baked goods, candies
•Soiled paper towels and tissues
•Soiled paper food packaging
•Food soiled cardboard
•Used paper cups and plates
•Coffee grounds, filters, tea bags
•Ice cream and milk & cream cartons
•Baking ingredients, herbs, spices
•Houseplants, cut and dried flowers
•Nuts and shells
•Compostable bags (must have certified compostable logo)
For more infomation go to www.beyondcomposting.ca
Maffeo Sutton Park has the blues! Listen to free music Saturday August 28th from noon to 8pm and Sunday August 29th from noon to 6pm under the Lions Pavilion.
Saturday:
Sunday:
Back to School!
It’s that time of year getting the kids’ supplies together! Enjoy the madness.
Artwork Courtesy of “Artist Marie”.
Do you enjoy food and would like to support local theatre? Time to get your tickets for the 18th Annual Bite of Nanaimo which will be held September 24th, 2010 from 4-9pm at Beban Park Auditorium.
Featuring… in alpha order…
A Wee Cupcakery, Acme Rib and Seafood House, Country Grocer, Diners Rendezvous, Dinghy Dock Pub & Floating Restaurant, Gabriel’s Café, Gryphon’s Lair, Kelsey’s, Lighthouse Bistro and Pub, Longwood Brew Pub, Manzavino’s Pizzeria and Italian Grill, Markt Artisan Deli, Nellie’s Dutch Deli, Parfait Gourmet Desserts, Pollyanna’s High Tea Company, Richardson Foods Group, The Keg Steakhouse and Bar, Vancouver Island University Professional Baking Program, Winston’s Tea Company.
Awards to be won at the Bite: NEW AWARD!! “Best Use of Local Ingredients” , Best Appetizer, Best Booth, Best Dessert, Best Hospitality, Best Meat, Best Poultry, Best Refreshment, Best Vegetarian.
Tickets $12 now at www.theatreone.org
Your last chance to catch, “Acres of Dreams” ends this September 6, 2010.
Acres of Dreams is a travelling exhibititon produced by the Canadian Museum of Civilization in collaboration with the Library and Archives Canada. The exhibit is on display now at the Nanaimo Museum in the Vancouver Island Conference Centre on Commercial Street. It was developed to mark the centennials of Saskatchewan and Alberta, both of which gained provincial status in 1905 thanks largely to the people and events depicted in this exhibit.
Between 1896 and the outbreak of the Great War in 1914, about two million settlers from Europe and the United States poured into the Canadian Prairies in the greatest single wave of immigration in Canada’s history.
Acres of Dreams: Settling the Canadian Prairies revisits the unprecedented marketing campaign led by the federal government that lured immigrants into Western Canada. It also examines the origins, motivations, and experiences of the settlers who forever changed the prairie landscape and played an essential role in building Canada.
The exhibition highlights the dazzling array of posters, pamphlets, slogans, contest, travelling dispays, and lecture tours used in the marketing campaign led by the government, railway companies, steamship lines, and other business interests. The invitation to settle the Canadian Prairies – touted with slogans such as “Free Farms for the Millions,” “The Land of Opportunity,” and “The Last Best West” – embraced by individuals and families from as far away as Russia.
